Archive for 'local government'
Labour & Co-operative County Council candidates are go!
Over 250 Labour & Co-operative candidates are standing in the May County Council elections this year. Co-operative candidates, many of them existing councillors, are standing in every county council area in England with the exception of Warwickshire. With Ed Miliband launching Labour’s campaign with a speech at the East of England Co-op and the ever-growing interest [...]
Ed Miliband launches local election campaign with pledge on payday loans
This week Ed Miliband launched Labour’s campaign for May’s county council elections with strong words on legal loansharks and payday lenders. Ed’s speech made a strong reference to the campaign to end legal loansharking and the need to both cap the cost of credit and to give councils powers so that they can stop high [...]
Labour & Co-operative victory in the Wirral
A Labour & Co-operative candidate gained a council seat last night from the Conservatives on the Wirral. Phil Brightmore, a well-known Merseyside activist, won with a majority of 543 from the Conservatives, in the three-way marginal seat of Pensby and Thingwall. Philip was joined by Co-operative and Labour Party members from right around the country, [...]
Co-operative councils set out policy agenda
“A direct means to building One Nation”: Ed Miliband Download ‘Towards co-operative councils: empowering people to change their lives’ here The 21 leaders of Labour’s Co-operative Councils Network today set out their joint vision to “share power and decision-making more equally to achieve the best outcomes for citizens and their communities.” In a joint foreword [...]
New Labour & Co-operative councillor in flagship co-operative council
The Co-operative Party’s Head of Communications and member of the Co-operative Group’s South London Area Committee, Martin Tiedemann, was last Thursday (17 January) elected as a Labour & Co-operative councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth. Elected for Brixton Hill ward, home to Lambeth Town Hall and Brixton Prison, Cllr Tiedemann replaced former council leader [...]
Co-operative solutions to problem debt
Surrounded by problems caused by legal loansharks in north London, Andy Hull, a Labour councillor for Highbury West and Co-Chair of the Islington Fairness Commission, takes a look at ways that local councils and the co-operative movement can tackle payday lenders and support communities.
Life as a Campaigning Co-operative Councillor
Later today at Labour Party Conference, our fringe looks at the work of Labour & Co-operative councillors, from supporting credit unions to becoming a Co-operative Council. Here Liverpool City Councillor Nick Crofts – one of the speakers – sets out a few ideas. Liverpool has been a real hub of co-operative politics since the General [...]
Supporting Liverpool’s credit unions
Co-operative Party member and Liverpool City Council Cabinet member Cllr Nick Small reports on the Mayor of Liverpool’s £1m investment in credit unions. In May Joe Anderson was elected as Liverpool’s first City Mayor. One of his main pledges was to invest £1m in Liverpool’s credit unions to tackle legal loan sharking (£700,000 of the [...]
Co-operative Party bolsters Legal Loanshark Campaign
Co-operative Party member Hannah Lister reports on the recent Summerfest training event for Co-operative Party activists on our new campaign to end legal loan sharking and promote credit unions as a safer, more affordable alternative. The fight against loansharks and the promotion instead of fair and transparent Credit Unions is something that is a high [...]
Cllr Claire Hickson: Stopping the spread of payday loan shops on Southwark’s high streets
London councillor and Co-Chair of the Southwark Co-operative Party Claire Hickson describes the work she has been doing to halt the spread of payday loan shops in her community and promote credit unions as an affordable co-operative alternative. Last week, I went to Southwark’s planning committee for a second time to ask my fellow councillors [...]
